Center for Cost and Outcomes Research

CCOR brings together researchers conducting cost-effectiveness and outcomes studies that:

• are interdisciplinary
• advance the defintion and measurement of health outcomes
• emphasize cost as well as outcome
• evaluate alternative approaches to treatment, prevention, health promotion, and new technology
• evaluate different organizational arrangements for delivering health services

CCOR faculty and staff includes experts in measurement of the quality of life, health status, health outcomes, patient and provider satisfaction, economic analysis, statistics, and epidemiology.

CCOR provides research opportunities for fellows, residents and students.

The Center for Cost and Outcomes Research (CCOR) is jointly sponsored by the University of Washington School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, with most of the health sciences schools of the University represented on its Steering Committee.

The Center is headed by Co-Directors representing the Department of Health Services and the Department of Medicine.

CCOR is housed in offices located in the Patricia Steel Building (401 Broadway) near Harborview Medical on First Hill. These offices are the home for most CCOR research projects, and the location from which clinical and field staff are directed.

Mission

The mission of the Center for Cost and Outcomes Research (CCOR) is to discover the most cost-effective approaches to improving the health of patients and populations, and to identify ways to put these improvements into practice. CCOR carries out this mission by advancing the state of knowledge and improving methodologies for studying the costs, quality and outcomes of clinical, programmatic and organizational approaches to patient care, disease prevention, and health promotion.